Simplest Flexagon

Folded things, flexagon not included This evening I'm teaching a class that Center for Book Arts is called Seasonal Folding. As I'm sitting here preparing my materials, I'm also reading over the class description, with the thought in my head "what was I thinking????" Actually I know what I was thinking. I was thinking that…

Production Pleating

Have created some paper-pleated trimmings for the town office's ten narrow windows. It's been quite the project. Here's how it went. I needed to start with paper that was about 75 inches wide. Pieced this together with three 25 inches lengths, also about 10.5 inches tall. Maybe I could have used taller paper. Next, created…

Class Packs & Love Letters

Putting together a packet to send to people who are taking zoom classes with me is much like sending out love letters. I consider each item I enclose, carefully collect them together, imagining how the receiver will feel when they arrive. For about two week now, nearly every day I've said to myself that this…

Folding, Teaching, Zooming

Fascinated by Folding: maybe that's what I should called the next set of classes I'll be teaching at Center for Book Arts, via zoom, over 4 weeks starting afternoons at the end of April or for 4 weeks in the evenings starting in the beginning of May. Alas, these classes are called Flat Foldable Pleats,…